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'Meri Pyaari Bindu' is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film, written by Suprotim Sengupta and directed by Akshay Roy. It features Parineeti Chopra and Ayushmann Khurrana in the lead roles.

The principal photography of the film began in Kolkata in May 2016 and was wrapped in October 2016. The film was released on 12 May 2017.

Plot



Abhimanyu Roy and Bindu Shankarnaryanan are best friends since childhood. Abhimanyu has always been in love with Bindu much to his mother's dismay. He never conveys his real feelings to Bindu and is happy being just friends with her. One day, Bindu's mother dies in an accident. Heartbroken Bindu blames her father as he was driving the car while drunk. Her growing resentment towards her father forces her to leave college and go to Melbourne. Meanwhile, Abhimanyu graduates from his college and goes to Bangalore to study Master of Business Administration. Both of them remain in touch through letters and postcards where she tells him that she got engaged which she breaks off later. The communication between them stops. After a few years, Abhi goes to Goa, where he meets Bindu. Bindu tells him that she is engaged for the third time (she was also engaged in between which she also breaks off) and this time she really likes the guy.

Abhimanyu is heartbroken and returns to Mumbai where he works in a bank but staying in touch with Bindu. One day she calls him to a restaurant and tells him that she did not marry that man as he fled. Abhimanyu tries to reconcile their friendship and goes out of his way to tend to Bindu's needs. His girlfriend leaves him as he is always busy with Bindu. She starts working as a dubbing artist and they spend more time together and later fall in love with each other. Bindu's dream comes true as she gets a chance to become a singer but her album is not received well upon its release. Bindu is devastated and their relationship is strained because of her failure. Abhimanyu proposes to her for marriage, but Bindu refuses saying she's wants to find herself and she's not happy and leaves for Bangalore. She repeatedly apologise to Abhimanyu and writes emails to him but he never replies.



After 2 years Abhimanyu becomes a writer who writes erotic horror novels, his first novel becomes a hit. And on the day his first novel gets published he receives a call from Bindu that she is getting married. Hurt he says that he is happy for her. Few years has passed but Abhimanyu has hit the roadblock and unable to write a novel. The manager forces him to write novel quickly. Thus he takes a break and moves to his house in Kolkata. A birthday party is organised and Bindu comes to Kolkata as well. Bindu is now married to Mr.Nair and has a daughter as well. Both of them visit the place where they used to go to since they were children and start remembering their memories. Abhimanu shows her the manuscript of their love story and gives it to her and says that he doesn't want anybody else to read the manuscript as it just belongs to two of them.

The film ends as Abhimanyu and Bindu dance together at the birthday party and Abhi saying that today Bindu is someone's mother, daughter in law or wife but for him she will always remain his pyaari Bindu thus "Meri Pyari Bindu".

Cast



*Parineeti Chopra as Bindu Shankarnarayanan

*Ayushmann Khurrana as Abhimanyu "Abhi" Roy aka Bubla

*Rajatava Dutta as Bubla's father

*Aparajita Adhya as Bubla's mother

*Prakash Belawadi as Bindu's father

*June Malia as Bindu's mother

*Kharaj Mukherjee as over-excited relative

* Biswajit Chakraborty as a neighbor

* Kamalika Banerjee as Boobi Mashi

*Abish Mathew as Bubla's friend in Mumbai

* Lama Halder as shopkeeper

* Prabal Punjabi

* Amrita Bagchi as Abhimanyu's girlfriend

* Nishant Dahiya

* Priya Mondal

Box office



The film had a total gross collection of .

Soundtrack



The film soundtrack of Meri Pyaari Bindu is composed by SachinJigar with lyrics by Kausar Munir and Priya Saraiya. The songs in the film has been sung by Arijit Singh, Ayushmann Khurrana, Sonu Nigam, Parineeti Chopra, Clinton Cerejo, Dominique Cerejo, Monali Thakur, Nakash Aziz, Sanah Moidutty, Jigar Saraiya and Jonita Gandhi. Chopra recorded her first song "Maana Ke Hum Yaar Nahin" for the film. The full soundtrack, which consists of a total of 7 songs was released on 20 April 2017.

Reception



On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 44% based on 9 reviews, and an average rating of 5.38/10.

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